In 2015, the Kansas City Public Schools district issued 1,042 suspensions to students in kindergarten through third grade.

Black students make up 54.4 percent of its K-3 population. White students make up 9.7 percent.

Those suspensions went to both black and white students.

The Kansas City Public Schools district is one of at least 79 in Missouri that recorded different types of suspensions: in-and out-of-school.

Here’s the breakdown of the district's suspensions from last year:

It gave 161 — or 100.0 percent — of its in-school suspensions to black students. White students received zero — or 0.0 percent of these suspensions.

That works out to a rate of about one in-school suspension for every 19 black students.

Here’s the picture for out-of-school suspensions:

It gave 764 — or 86.7 percent — of its out-of-school suspensions to black students. White students got 25 — or 2.8 percent of these suspensions.

That works out to a rate of about one out-of-school suspension for every four black students and about one out-of-school suspension for every 22 white students.

But the picture looks quite different for long out-of-school suspensions.

In the Kansas City Public Schools district, only black children got out-of-school suspensions of a week (5 school days) or longer. They received 194 of these long out-of-school suspensions last year.

That works out to a rate of about one long out-of-school suspension for every 16 black students.

Crave even more context?

In Missouri, during the 2014-15 school year, students in kindergarten through third grade were suspended 21,463 times.

Black students make up about 17 percent of students in those grades. If they were given suspensions at a rate equal to their enrollment, they'd have received 3,574. Instead, they got 11,079 — more than half of all suspensions.

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